tithable

Definitions

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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Subject to the payment of tithes.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Subject to the payment of tithes, as property; capable of being tithed.

Assessable for tithes, or for the payment of any tax to a parish, as a person.

n. A person by or for whom tithes or parish taxes were payable.

Etymologies

tithe +‎ -able (Wiktionary)

Examples

Each year the vestry laid the parish levy of a certain number of pounds of tobacco upon each "tithable" — that is, every male white person, and every negro or Indian servant above sixteen years of age, the taxes of the family, and of the servants being paid by the master, or head of the household.

The Committee therefore voted: “It is . . . recommended that the sum of three shillings per poll . . . be paid by and for every tithable person in this County, to the Sheriff or such other collector as may be appointed, who is to render the same to this Committee, with a list of the names of such persons as shall refuse to pay the same, if any such there be.”

Commutation Act came it was a great relief alike to the clergyman and the farmers and landowners, and did away with a longstanding cause of strife and litigation, especially in a town like Royston, where a farmer might have tithable produce in several parishes.

Land at twenty shillings per hundred acres was offered to each emigrant settling within the territory and raising a crop of corn before September 1, 1775, the emigrant being permitted to take up as much as five hundred acres for him self and two hundred and fifty acres for each tithable person under him.